Sentences with phrase «miles wide impacted»

Millions of years ago an asteroid six miles wide impacted the Earth resulting in the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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The microburst had maximum wind speeds of 80 to 90 miles per hour impacted a swath three miles wide and four miles long in the area.

The evidence indicates that our planet was repeatedly bombarded by objects up to 30 miles wide, with some impacts up to 500 times as energetic as the one that ended the Cretaceous.

Last year, the Messenger probe — the first mission to Mercury since the 1970s — returned crystal - clear views of the 960 - mile - wide Caloris impact basin, here seen in false color as yellow - orange.

VOLCANIC TERRAIN During a 2009 flyby, Messenger spotted Rachmaninoff, a 170 - mile - wide, double - ringed impact basin.

After almost three months of round - the - clock drilling, geologists have finished a 1.1 - mile borehole to the bottom of the United States» largest impact crater, a 53 - mile - wide depression at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

One enormous impact formed Pluto's photogenic «heart,» a basin 1,100 miles wide known as Tombaugh Regio.

Objects more than a half - mile wide — which strike Earth every 250,000 years or so — would touch off firestorms followed by global cooling from dust kicked up by the impact.

The kind of asteroid needed to form the Martian dichotomy would fall in between that size and those of the rocks that formed other large craters, such as the South Pole — Aitken impact basin on the moon and the Hellas Basin in Mars's southern hemisphere, both more than 1,30 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide.

Those three mountains are actually the central peaks of the crater Bhabha, a 64 kilometer (40 mile) wide impact scar on the far side of the Moon.

Flooding from a single tropical cyclone often impacts 10 to 15 states located hundreds of miles from the coast and covering a wide area.

This view of 1,000 - mile - wide Caloris basin — among the largest known asteroid impacts in the solar system — shows how lava (orange) filled the blast site before new craters excavated the original basin (purple).

South Africa's nearly 200 - mile - wide Vredefort crater places first among Earth's largest confirmed impact.

The impact of an 15 kilometer [9 mile]- wide asteroid approximately 65 million years ago is linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Extending William Schmidt's decade - old observation that the U.S. math curriculum is «a mile wide and an inch deep,» Schmidt and Richard Houang find evidence that coherence and focus have a substantial impact on math achievement.

One five - mile wide asteroid impact would wipe out the biosphere.

... «dust emissions have a wide impact on climate and weather, from modifying rainfall thousands of miles away, to influencing hurricane intensity and affecting air quality».

The legendary biologist E.O. Wilson compares humanity's collective impact to the 9 - mile wide asteroid that 65 million years ago slammed into the Chicxulub coast of Yucatan at a speed of 45,000 miles per hour, exterminating the non-avian dinosaurs and causing the 5th mass extinction of species.

From 5 months out, the forecast for such a high number was being scoffed at, but if someone told you, as a scientist, there was going to 16 - 18 storms and 5 majors arguably 6 (Alex was 947 mb with a 12 mile wide eye) what would have been your impact conclusion on the US coastline.